I can’t believe Harper is already a month old! It has been an eventful four weeks to say the least. We are learning a lot of tricks of the trade when it comes to raising a newborn that is for sure. We soon realized when Harper hit about 2 weeks old that there is indeed a “witching hour” for babies. Harper is everything but sleepy usually from 7-11 pm and it takes a lot of trial and error on our part to get her to bed for the night. In this time period we usually go through at least 5 diapers and multiple feeds in attempt to calm her to get her sleepy. She really likes to party around 9 pm and is super cute and playful, but I don’t want her to get used to having such a late bedtime. So we are working on that! I’m not surprised because when she was in my belly she also hosted nightly parties around the same time that included a lot of kicking, punching, and log rolls. Despite that party time, Harper has been a pretty good sleeper since day one with only two sleepless nights on record. In fact she will sleep on average 4-5 hours at a time and has even slept through the night twice last week. Lately her personality is starting to blossom. Her biggest milestone (technically at 5 weeks) was that she has started smiling at us. Not just the sleepy smiles that she has been doing from birth, but she will smile and make eye contact with us when we talk to her or when she is playing.
I decided I wanted to document her monthly growth with photos. So I hand made a tutu (thanks to Pinterest) that she can wear each month to show her growth. It still looks big on her but I know she will grow into it quickly. Below are the pictures at one month old.
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